My Life Has Stood-A Loaded Gun By Emily Dickinson // Full Poem Explanation With Summary

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‘My life has stood - A loaded Gun’ By Emily Dickinson is a six stanza poem that is separated into sets of four lines, or quatrains. This poem of Dickinson describes the sleeping power of a woman who is being ruled by her master in this male dominated world. Like other poems of Emily, this poem does not have a title, and instead goes by either its first line or the number 764.


In the first stanza of this poem poet states that her life has existed up as a ‘loaded gun’. In this instance her speaker is starting that their life “Has Stood” in a “Corner” like a “Loaded Gun.” These lines expresses a reader that the poet is seeing herself as a separate from her own life. The speaker compares her life’s challenges with a loaded gun and attempts to explain how she fulfills her duties toward her owner. In the past, she stood purposelessly in a corner when one day a hunter came and owned her. Right from that day, she became his companion. Being desperate to expose her full potential, she accompanies her master for hunting.

When she speaks, even nature listens and replies to her. Also, at night, when her master is asleep, she guards that protects him from foes. Ironically, she is going to live longer than his master because she possesses the power to kill. She describes the power she feels within her. Here the power comes through her written words and the influence over the readers. Indirectly, the poet concludes that she will live forever through her poetry.